‘Rewards, sanctions will change youths’

The President of National Council of Catholic Women Organisation (NCCWO), Chief (Mrs.) Felicia Onyeabo, has challenged government to adopt a system based on sanctions and rewards to motivate youths towards nation-building.

By adequately rewarding good deeds and imposing sanctions on deviants, he said youths in the country will learn to embrace positive values.

She spoke last week at the presentation of Ambassador of Mary national merit award for women and men across various parishes The awards, she said, were presented to distinguished individuals to motivate them to greater heights.

The awardees, according to her, have gone through a rigorous selection process.